Meaning: "All the falfe as well as fooliih Concluﬁons, Afrom a particular to an univerfal Truth, fall under the Cenfure of this Proverb. It teaches, that as he that gueﬁes at the Courfe of the Year by the Flight of one ﬁngle Bird, is very liable to be miﬁaken in his Conjeéture; fo alfo a Man cannot be denominated Rich from one ﬁngle Piece of Money in his Pocket, nor accounted univerfally good from the Practice of one ﬁngle Virtue, nor temperate: becaufe he is ﬂout, nor liberal becaufe he is exactly juft: that one Day cannot render a Man completely happy in point of Time, nor one Action confummate his Glory in Point of Valour. In fhort, the Moral of it is, That the right way of Judging of Things, beyond Impoﬁtion and Fallacy, is not from Particulars, but Univerfals."

"For the most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you disagree as well as those with which you agree."

Bilbo Baggins: Good morning.Gandalf: What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning or do you mean that it is a good morning wheter I want it or not? Or perhaps you mean to say that you feel good on this particular morning? Or are you simply stating that this is a morning to be a good on? Hm?Bilbo Baggins: All of them at once, I suppose.

"Don't feargod, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure."

The "Tetrapharmakos" [τετραφάρμακος], or "The four-part cure" of Epicurus, from the "Herculaneum Papyrus", 1005, 4.9–14 of Philodemus, as translated in The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (1994) edited by D. S. Hutchinson, p. vi